Gen 47:21-26 | ESV | STEP | As for the people , he made servants of them from one end of Egypt to the other .

Genesis 47:21-26

21 As for the people, he made servants of them ^{▼▼Samaritan, Septuagint, Vulgate; Hebrew he removed them to the cities} from one end of Egypt to the other. 22 ^bOnly the land of the priests he did not buy, for the priests had a fixed allowance from Pharaoh and lived on the allowance that Pharaoh gave them; therefore they did not sell their land.

23 Then Joseph said to the people, “Behold, I have this day bought you and your land for Pharaoh. Now here is seed for you, and you shall sow the land. 24 And at the harvests you shall give a ^cfifth to Pharaoh, and four fifths shall be your own, as seed for the field and as food for yourselves and your households, and as food for your little ones.” 25 And they said, “You have saved our lives; ^dmay it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.” 26 So Joseph made it a statute concerning the land of Egypt, and it stands to this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth; ^ethe land of the priests alone did not become Pharaoh’s.